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The pool was still filled. A holiday ornament was still on the lobby wall. A few struggling flowers and plants were still hanging onto their blooms.
Even the beds were made in the rooms as if hotel guests were about to check in.
This was the scene from a tour in late February of the former Howard Johnson hotel that had closed a few weeks prior and was beginning a transformation into a homeless shelter near Vancouver Mall.
